British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture
Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses
Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 23 January 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350511903
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156x14 mm
- Weight 360 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 30 bw illus 673
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Long description:
Whether watching Studio Ghibli adaptations of British children's books, visiting Harry Potter sites in Britain or eating at Alice in Wonderland-themed restaurants in Tokyo, the Japanese have a close and multifaceted relationship with British children's literature. In this, the first comprehensive study to explore this engagement, Catherine Butler considers its many manifestations in print, on the screen, in tourist locations and throughout Japanese popular culture. Taking stock of the influence of literary works such as Gulliver's Travels, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Tom's Midnight Garden, and the Harry Potter series, this lively account draws on literary criticism, translation, film and tourist studies to explore how British children's books have been selected, translated, understood, adapted and reworked into Japanese commercial, touristic and imaginative culture. Using theoretically informed case studies this book will consider both individual texts and their wider cultural contexts, translations and adaptations (such as the numerous adaptations of British children's books by Studio Ghibli and others), the dissemination of distinctive tropes such as magical schools into Japanese children's literature and popular culture, and the ways in which British children's books and their settings have become part of way that Japanese people understand Britain itself.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Note on the Text
Introduction: Writing from the Outside In
Chapter 1. Wonderland or Looking-Glass? Meiji Japan Through the Lens of Children's Literature
Chapter 2. Britain and the Origins of Japanese Children's Literature
Chapter 3. Canons to the West, Canons to the East: The Japanese Reception of British Children's Books
Chapter 4. Hayao Miyazaki and British Children's Literature
Chapter 5. Children's Literature, Tourism and the Japanese Imagination
Postscript: Reading from the Inside Out
Bibliography
Index
British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture: Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses
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